Survey: How's Your Economy?http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2010/03/10/survey-how-s-your-economy.aspxAnother quick survey question, slightly off-topic: How's your economy? Have things picked up for you recently? Slowed down? Remained static? :{&gt; AndyenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)re: Survey: How's Your Economy?http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2010/03/10/survey-how-s-your-economy.aspx#23094Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:28:18 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:23094WIDBA<p>Upper Midwest seems to be doing ok. &nbsp;I think good Data people can almost always find a job - its the marginal ones that struggle.</p>re: Survey: How's Your Economy?http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2010/03/10/survey-how-s-your-economy.aspx#23095Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:28:40 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:23095Jack Corbett<p>Working for a faith-based organization where I am supported by donations I can say that in 2009 my economy was down by about 20%, but believe it or not, I didn't really notice it until I did my taxes.</p>
<p>In the last 3-5 months it feels like things have picked up for me personally and in my role as a user group leader I get to talk to recruiters and things in technology have picked up some.</p>re: Survey: How's Your Economy?http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2010/03/10/survey-how-s-your-economy.aspx#23097Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:18:08 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:23097Paul Nielsen<p>last year I worked on 2 books, so it was a down year for income. This year I'm consulting, so it's an up year for income. </p>re: Survey: How's Your Economy?http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2010/03/10/survey-how-s-your-economy.aspx#23100Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:52:23 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:23100Dylan Finney<p>Public Education (and government in general) will be down for 2010 in CO. &nbsp;But we're usually a year behind you private sector guys anyways ;p</p>
<p>Here's hoping for 2011!</p>re: Survey: How's Your Economy?http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2010/03/10/survey-how-s-your-economy.aspx#23103Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:23:56 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:23103Alexander Kuznetsov<p>I am getting the feeling that the Linux segment of the market is doing very good, and that the current trends are somewhat in that direction.</p>re: Survey: How's Your Economy?http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2010/03/10/survey-how-s-your-economy.aspx#23151Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:20 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:23151Tim Mitchell<p>No complaints here. &nbsp;If the number of recruiter calls and e-mails is any indication of how well the economy is doing, it's safe to say that the database field, particularly BI, still has more opportunities than talent.</p>re: Survey: How's Your Economy?http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2010/03/10/survey-how-s-your-economy.aspx#23176Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:20:10 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:23176Stephen Munson<p>I was working out of state from August thru the end of last year, and the work ended mid-January (last 4 weeks from home)... &nbsp;I'm about to head out of state once again - possibly for a year or more... &nbsp;Bottom line: &nbsp;The economy HAS started to go in the right direction, BUT - being on unemployment just doesn't make ends meet, so things are tough, and will be for a while...</p>